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03 Aug 2015 7:30:17am

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I read this with great interest. From my personal experience with my 89 year old mother, the effects of Crestor that she was prescribed with caused her in 2 weeks to experience the Rhabdomyolsis where luckily her GP and a achilles heel problem (which masked the symptoms when she suffered aches where it was thought to be unbalance use of foot and gait) caused a blood test to be taken. Only then, with the blood results, was it found that her CK level was 24000 (kidney failure occurring). She was hospitalised immediately within 48 hrs of the blood test taken. From that time, she recovered with a fantastic kidney specialist in Sydney. The lessons learnt here, is 1) read about the medication your aged parents or anyone taking it to understand the side effects. 2) ask your doctor of what are the known side effects and if the doctor feels defensive, you can always google the drug description in the pharmaceutical website. eg I googled CRESTOR and I was able to read the side effects of muscle effects and the people groups to provide a lower dosage to (asians for eg.) 3) monitor and diarise changes to how you feel daily4) see your GP with this diary 5) if unsure ask for a blood test/urine test to check what the results tell you (kidney, liver, etc). Its the only way to know how your body is coping. Hope this helps us to be a more informed group.

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